New Judges All Around

Out with the old, in with the new

As most people know a lot of today's television programming is made up of a lot of reality shows and reality competition shows and has been for years. Many of today's competition shows are having a very similar problem with keeping their judges season after season. To some this might not matter or bother them but to me I think it is hard for the viewers and contestants to deal with. When the judges change the whole dynamic of the show changes. You now have to worry if this person will get along with this person and how they will act as a judge. I just feel like if you are going to commit to the show really think about it or let us know that every judge that comes on is only doing a season because as viewers we become used to that person and then are like wait what? As many of these shows are either just ending a season or just starting a season many of them are not the same as they were the season before. 

"The X-Factor" known for being the brain child of Mr. Simon Cowell did ok last season with the judges being Simon, L.A. Reid, Britney Spears, and Demi Lavato. As I mentioned in an early post Britney quit the show at the end of the season after rumors swirled she was going to be fired and L.A. Reid also left the show leaving two positions to fill. This coming season Simon and Demi will be back and joined by Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child and Paulina Rubio. People are already dubbing the group Simon's "angels" after the famed TV show "Charlie's Angels". I don't know how this group will mix to be honest, but if the girls all play nice things should be ok. 

"America's Got Talent" is coming back next month but not with the same faces as last season either. Last season the judges were Sharon Osbourne, Howie Mandel, and Howard Stern. First off I don't think of these people as being the people I want telling me what talent is but that is just me. After feuding with NBC Sharon left the show and has been replaced with two new judges Mel B from the Spice Girls (which hey they might have been popular back in the day but at least she has talent) and also super model Heidi Klum. Which by the way love that the two new judges are not American which I guess doesn't really matter. There could be some sparks with this group since I feel most of them have strong personalities and opinions. We will see soon how they work together. 

"American Idol" has been passing us around from judge to judge for years so I have kind of gotten used to it because we always had the constant of good ole Randy Jackson there to tell us who was "in it to win it" but after having a crazy season sharing the panel with Keith Urban, Mariah Carey, and Nicki Minaj (which was hard to deal with for everyone sometimes) all four judges are going to be replaced this coming season. Because the season just ended and the show doesn't start auditions for another couple months we have no word on who the new judges will be but I don't know who I would even want them to be. It will be weird watching the show without Randy Jackson there I feel, though I am happy that for now Ryan Seacrest is sticking around otherwise I would say lets end this thing and call it good on AI. 

"The Voice" being one of the newer competition shows kept it pretty constant for a while having the judges be Christina Aguilera, Blake Shelton, Adam Levine, and Ceelo Green for the first three seasons. This season Christina and Ceelo are gone working on their own careers while new mom Shakira stepped in along with Usher. The great thing about these judges are they are all current and very talented at what they do so I feel like what they say to the contestants is always valid and right on point. The interaction with the judges as also been good (though we all noticed the sexual tension between Christina and Adam there for awhile). Even though Christina and Ceelo were gone this season they have announced they are coming back for season five and Usher and Shakira are coming back for season six. What we don't know about season six is if we will have four or six judges? I don't think it would be horrible if all six were there, but we will see what happens. 

 And finally we have "Dancing With The Stars" which has had the same judges for the entire 16 seasons of the show though are now talking about possibly getting new judges to compete with "The Voice" for viewers. As a lover of DWTS I have to say the show would not be the same without Bruno, Carrie Ann, and good ole Len. I hope they stick around until they kick this show off the air one day years from now.